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an effort to make every day Earth Day.*__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ April 22, 2011 Earth Day Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the
only thing that ever has.-- Margaret Mead Marking its 41st anniversary on Friday, April 22, 2011 Earth Day was celebrated by millions
around the world. Our 2011 campaign
to bring attention to Plasic bags and the harm they do got a lot of support at this years Eco Fair in Charlottesville. One of the vendors at the fair brought
a student movie PLASTIC STATE OF MIND on You tube to our attention and here is theThe idea behind the day - honoring the planet and all living things that inhabit
it - began during the early 1960's hippie movement, Today,
many cities extend Earth Day celebrations for an entire week to increase awareness of recycling and better energy efficient communities that culminates with official Earth Day observances on April 22. In 2011, watch for major campaigns to help get more people
involved in recycling, planting a tree, and other activities aimed at helping to protect the only planet we've got. Keep that Earth Day Spirit year round and we will make a difference.
Join Time Disposal in our daily effort to do what we can to reuse, reduce, recycle and operate our business like every day is Earth Day._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ VAN DER LINDE RECYCLINGTime Disposal takes all Trash, Waste, Rubbish, Garbage
collected to the van der Linde Recycling facility What We
Do. Time Disposal takes all of your trash to the van der Linde Recycling facility. We pay them to take
your trash
- What do they do? The following is from the van der Linde Recycling web site. | | We are the landfill of the future! We separate and recycle
construction and demolition debris as well as household garbage
and trash of every description. We do two ground breaking things: We accept everything on the planet, not just your typical curbside
recyclables like cardboard, cans, bottles, mixed paper,
etc. Except of course, hazardous or freon products, toxic chemicals, or tires. No separation is required by you. That's our job.
We are fond of saying, "We do
the grunt work. You get the recycling glory." _______________________________________________________________
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der Linde Recycling Center Guide vvanvWe pull every possible recyclabvle item out of your
household garbage! Just send it ALL to us and we'll handle it for you. Materials | What to Recycle | How to Recycle | Do NOT Recycle | Glass | All types glass
pane glass & light bulbs | Clean & remove
caps | No mercury or florescent bulbs | Plastics | All types of plastic
bottles & containers and packaging materials | Clean & remove lids | | Aluminum & Metal | All aluminum & metal cans, pans or trays | Clean and flatten |
| Chipboard | All type of cereal
& food boxes & containers | Flatten boxes | | Cardboard | All types of corrugated cardboard boxes | Flatten boxes | | Paper | Newspaper, mixed office paper, telephone books | Bundled & dry | | Styrofoam | All types of styrofoam containers & packaging materials | Clean & dry | | Paints | Dried cans of paint | Can must be open & filled with cat litter |
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der linde Recycling Center Guide. We pull every possible recyclable item out of your houshold garbage! Just send
it all to us and we'll handle it for you. No hazardous freon products, toxic chemicals, or tires accepted. Tires: Rivanna Solid Waste Authority has told us they will take old tires on the rim $13.00 off the rim $6.00
call 295-3306 for hours, directions and instructions.
Look for recycled products like these in your local grocery stores. Kroger & Giant stores in the Charlottesville area carry
Small Step products like these pictured below click here to learn more.
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PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO ABOUT STREAM
LINE RECYCLING CLICK ON THE TEXT ABOVE OR CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON ON THE HOME PAGE & VISIT EARTH911.COM
FOR GOING GREEN IDEAS. Time Disposal
takes all recycling to the M.R.F. in Troy Virginia visit their web site and arrange for a tour of the facility.
http://vanderlinderecycling.com/tourTheFacility.htm Free, live action,
guided tours are available for individuals or groups interested. Get on board the world's first mobile recycling classroom!
Guided Tours will begin late August of 2009. Schedule your tour today! Karen Gottlieb will be happy to schedule
your Guided Tour. Simply give her a call or email her reserve to your tour date and time. Telephone: (toll free) 1-877-981-0891 Email: Tours@vanderLindeRecycling.com
Now all trash is sorted at the MRF for recyclable items. No need to separate recycling
items from your trash it is done for you. No need for a separate recycling bin or recycling truck. We take it all to the MRF.
Things have changed fast in the world of recycling. We will do everything possible to keep you informed about the process
right here on our website. If you do not purchase recycled items you are not recycling. Look for recycled products and make
the process work. REMEMBER REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE when you can! Thank you for helping us develop from our initial pilot recycling program to where we are today! From all of us at TIME DISPOSAL lets do the most
we can to help everyone recycle. ______________________________________________________________________________________ ***What is Earth 911?*** Earth911, Inc, dba
Earth911 is an environmental services company that addresses product end-of-life solutions for businesses and consumers. As
part of these offerings, Earth911 owns and operates North America’s most complete directory of local recycling and proper
disposal options. With our award-winning Web site attracting over 4.5 million visitors annually, we deliver the data, information
services platforms and media tools that leading brands and industries need to engage consumers, track recycling and proper
disposal programs and demonstrate compliance.
Explaining the Recycling Symbolby Trey Granger www.earth911.com Thank you Trey for all you do. You can find the chasing arrow symbol on many of your favorite
products, issuing a call to action that you should recycle. But the symbol itself involves much more than just dropping off
your products in a bin. In fact, the process of collecting and sorting these items is just one of the three arrows.
Once products are recycled, there’s still work to be done for the loop to be completed. Here’s a quick overview
on the steps involved in recycling: CollectionCollection comes in many forms, from curbside recycling to drop-off
facilities to municipal events. No matter what the product, the first step in recycling is to collect and sort. In the
case of plastic, you will find a number inside the recycling symbol. This is used during collection, because the number designates the type of plastic. Plastic bottles
can’t be recycled with Styrofoam as the molecules don’t mix. The number lets you know if different plastics are
molecule-compatible. Collection also includes the sorting of these materials at a recycling center. Once they are sorted, recyclables can be sold off and reprocessed. ReprocessingIt takes just 60 days for
a recycled aluminum can to end up back on the grocery shelf. For glass bottles, it’s as little as 30 days. But a lot
happens in this short time: - For metals like steel, reprocessing involves melting down the products into one solid
sheet of metal
- Paper recycling involves beating the fibers into slush and creating new paper from this slush
- Electronics
products are broken down so valuable metals and hazardous materials can be removed
Reprocessing can involve creating
the same product (a new aluminum can from an old aluminum can) or a completely different product (a park bench from recycled
plastic milk jugs). It is the one part of the recycling process that doesn’t involve the consumer. Buying RecycledYou
may also hear this referred to as “closing the loop.” Without this step, the recycling symbol is incomplete. Finding
products made with recycled content is easier than you think. Companies are usually proud to show off that products and packaging
are recycled. Recycled content does not always mean 100 percent recycled. Sometimes, recycled material is mixed with
raw material. This is usually marked, saying something like, “This product is made from 80% recycled paper.” The
recycling symbol is a loop because recycling is an infinite process. We just need to make sure there is participation on all
three arrows.
Aluminum Recycling Facts| | A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf
as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest! | | | Used
aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components,
storm window frames, and lawn furniture can also be recycled. | | | Recycling one
aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. | | | More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product. | | | Once
an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks. | | | Because
so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates. | | | An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now! | | | There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled. | | | We
use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year. | | | At one time, aluminum
was more valuable than gold! | | | A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day
on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves
enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes! | | | |
| | To produce each week's Sunday newspapers,
500,000 trees must be cut down. | | | Recycling a single run of the Sunday New
York Times would save 75,000 trees. | | | If all our newspaper was recycled,
we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year! | | | If every American recycled
just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year. | | | If
you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of
them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets
there are in the U.S.!!! | | | The average American uses seven trees a year in paper,
wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! | | | The
amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. | | | Approximately
1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S. | | | Americans
use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person. | | | The average
household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail. | | | In
1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space. | | | Each
ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts
of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air
pollution! | | | The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon
dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide. | | | The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the
cost of a mill using new pulp. |
| | Americans
use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away! | | | Plastic
bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year! | | | Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. | | | American throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year. |
| | Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles
and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable! | | | The
energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution
and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. | | | A
modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill. | | | Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every
ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%. |
| | Solid Waste and Landfills |
| | About one-third of an average dump
is made up of packaging material! | | | Every year, each American throws out about
1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted. | | | The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing
country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's
waste. | | | The highest point in Ohio is "Mount Rumpke," which is actually
a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill! | | | The US population discards
each year 16,000,000,000 diapers, 1,600,000,000 pens, 2,000,000,000 razor blades, 220,000,000 car tires, and enough aluminum
to rebuild the US commercial air fleet four times over. | | | Out of ever $10 spent
buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash. | | | On average, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill, and $65 to
$75 to incinerate it. |
| | Miscellaneous
Recycling Facts |
| | More
than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. All that foil is recyclable,
but not many people realize it. | | | Rainforests are being cut down at the rate
of 100 acres per minute! | | | A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly,
can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water. | | | Motor oil never wears
out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil. | | | On average, each one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost
a ton of trash per person, per year. | | | A typical family consumes 182 gallons
of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers -- make
sure they're recycled! |
These recycling facts have been compiled from various sources including
the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth911.org.
What Types of Plastics Can Be Recycled?by Jourdan Rassás What are these plastic numbers all about? This is the best chart I have seen regarding the plastics 1-7 see the simple explination
below. Gene Ware Plastics are identified by numbers 1 through 7. Usually located on the bottom of
the package, this number is code for the specific type of plastic you’re holding. Here are a couple of examples of the
identification numbers and their corresponding products: #1 PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) –
Fizzy drink bottles, oven-ready meal trays and water bottles #2 HDPE (High-density polyethylene) –
Milk bottles, detergent bottles, yogurt and margarine tubs, cereal box liners and grocery, trash and retail bags #3
PVC (Polyvinyl chloride) – Cling film (plastic food wrap), vegetable oil bottles, loose-leaf binders and construction
products such as plastic pipes #4 LDPE (Low-density polyethylene) – Dry cleaning bags, produce
bags, trash can liners, bread bags, frozen food bags and squeezable bottles, such as mustard and honey #5 PP
(Polypropylene) – Ketchup bottles, medicine bottles, aerosol caps and drinking straws #6 PS (Polystyrene)
– Compact disc jackets, grocery store meat trays, egg cartons, aspirin bottles, packaging Styrofoam peanuts and plastic
tableware #7 Other - Three- and five-gallon reusable water bottles, certain kinds of food containers
and Tupperware
OUR RECYCLING PROGRAM IS UNDERWAY
CALL
THE OFFICE or use the comment card on our Home Page TO FIND OUT about our recycling SERVICE IN YOUR
AREA.  Public Information posted by the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority: THE MCINTIRE RECYCLING CENTER WILL TAKE GLASS,
PLASTIC, PAPER PRODUCTS, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, METAL, ALUMINUM CANS AND CARDBOARD. THEY ARE LOCATED AT 611 MCINTIRE RD BESIDE
THE BASEBALL FIELD. Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday - 7:30 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. Saturday - 8:00 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. Sunday
- 12:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. No vehicles allowed entry after 5:20 p.m. Holiday Schedule: The Facility is closed on New Years
Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, December 24th and Christmas. Call Rivanna Solid Waste Authority Recycling
at 434-977-2976 if you have more questions. This is world's shortest comprehensive
USA/Canada recycling guideFrom the Consumer Recycling Guide.
| Good
to recycle | Bad to recycle | Notes | Unbroken glass containers
Clear is the most valuable. Lids can go with metal. | Ceramics, pyrex, tablware, windows, lightbulbs,
mirrors. Broken glass is hard to sort. | Only bottle glass is acceptable. Ceramics contaminate glass. Glass
is normally color sorted for recycling. | Clean dry newspapers &
newspaper inserts | Rubber bands, plastic bags, product samples, water, dirt, mold or other contamination. | Pack
newspapers tightly in large brown grocery sacks or tie with natural twine. Keep dry. | | Empty metal cans, caps, lids, bands and foil | Full cans, spray cans unless instructed, cans with paint or hazardous waste. | Metals
can be recycled again and again. | Plastic stamped #1 or #2
on the bottom. Some areas only accept clear plastic or certain shapes. | Plastic types #3, #4, #5, #6 or especially #7.
Caps are usually a different type from the bottle - toss if unmarked. | Even a small amount of
the wrong type of plastic can ruin a melt. Much plastic collected for recycling is actually landfilled. | | Grocery bags, most clear plastic bags especially if marked #2 or #4 | Paper, water, dirt, mold or other contamination. | Reduce your need; reuse bags until
they're torn. Use old bags to pick up dog waste. Many grocery stores have a barrel for recycling old bags. | | Mixed paper: junk mail, magazines, photocopies, computer printouts, cereal/shoe boxes, etc. (some places also take corrugated cardboard and phone books) | Stickers, napkins, tissues, waxed paper, milk cartons, carbon paper, laminated paper (fast food wraps,
some food bags, drink boxes, foil), neon paper, thermal fax paper. Any wet or food stained paper. | When
in doubt, throw it out.
Paper fiber can be recycled about 7 times before it gets too small. Plastic window envelopes
are ok. | | Scrap aluminum such as lawn chairs, window frames and pots | Metal parts attracted to magnets. Non-metal parts. | Aluminum is not attracted to
magnets. | | There is no need to remove labels or bands from cans and bottles. Clean
only enough to prevent odors. Do not recycle containers with traces of hazardous materials. Do not recycle dirty or food stained
paper. |
| Motor oil (never dump into storm drains) and Tires. | Call your garbage company, local quick-lube,
tire shop or call 1-800-MOTOROIL. Old oil and old tires are serious problems. | | Automotive batteries, sealed lead/gel-cell batteries | Keep lead out of the environment; take to an automotive or security dealer for recycling
or trade in. | | Rechargeable batteries (cordless phone, camcorder, shaver, portable appliance, computer, etc.) | Call 1-800-8BATTERY
for information. Throw alkaline and heavy duty batteries in trash unless prohibited (See California Universal Waste Note. Nickel-Cadmium rechargeable batteries contain toxins, please recycle. | | Laser/Ink printer cartridges | Send to one of the many recyclers or refillers. | | Household toxics (paints, oils, solvents, pesticides, cleaners) | Call your garbage company for advice. Do
not dump into storm drains. | | Computers, eyeglasses, household goods | Donate to charity. Give to a repair shop. | | This is world's
shortest comprehensive USA/Canada recycling guide. Contains generalizations; local procedures may differ. From the Consumer Recycling Guide, "www.obviously.COM/recycle/". ©1997-2006 Evergreen Industries. Remember: Unless you buy recycled products,
you are not recycling. |
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